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by Kris Franken

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Your purpose is so much more than your career or job; it's the way you are in the world, your natural state of being. The way you feel called to do certain types of work, collaborate with particular individuals, serve humanity, and inspire those around you is all an intuitive part of who you that you can access anytime.

Here are 11 ways to intuitively discover the purpose written in the light of your Soul.

1. Follow Your Joy
   Your Soul has come into your body in this life with a natural inclination for joy. Bliss is your natural state; when you follow what lifts your vibration into the realms of bliss and joy, you can be sure that you are listening to the pull of your purpose.Your purpose and career aren't meant to be draining or demanding; they're intended to be uplifting and fulfilling. And although there will be periods that challenge you along the way, when you're feeling satisfyingly deep joy from service and sharing your gifts, you know that you've been trusting the divine process and following your heart.
2. Listen to Love
   If you're not sure of your talents and gifts, listen to love. Love is the voice of your intuition that is aligned with the highest expression of your Soul. Love will show you how you best serve, help, create, transform, collaborate, and inspire.How do you love others? Perhaps it's through a long hug, kind words, compassionate energy, a watercolour painting, cooking a scrumptious meal, writing a poem, or practical, everyday ways. The way you love others is a reflection of how you serve the world and it matters. The world needs you to make mindful waves with an open and generous heart.
3. Sit in Stillness
   The blueprint that's etched into the fabric of your Soul cannot be felt or heard if you're rushing, hustling, or busy all the time. Make time for stillness. Create space for the wise whispers of your heart to guide you each day.This purposeful blueprint is a continuation of all your incarnations; you have been building on your talents for lifetimes! Your intuition has so much to share with you, but it doesn't use words, so it can't compete with the chaos of a cluttered mind. In stillness, you'll feel the knowing that's always present, always loving, always nudging you toward greatness.
4. Expect Miracles
   Miracles are unexpected consequences of living aligned with the flow of your own lifeforce. Your breath and interconnected spirit are connected to the One Spirit, and as you feel this and allow it to guide your life intuitively, miracles will happen at every turn.Your purpose will unfold miraculously if you give up judgments and expectations around what it should look like or what you think you must be doing. The more you hold onto specific desires that leave no room for the fullest expression of your highest purpose, the smaller the field you have to play in.
   Miracles yearn for space. Let go of your pre-planned life and open up to all that is meant for you. Let life surprise and delight you.
5. Learn How You Help
   Consider for a moment what your gift is to your community. What do others ask you for? How do you help others in a way that feels relatively easy, humbly fulfilling, and energetically abundant? The way you help others is a portal to knowing your purpose on a deep level.We all have natural gifts—our own sweet medicine—that feel genuine and freely available. These gifts have been curated and crafted by our Souls over many, many lifetimes to help others—and us—into the highest version of ourselves.
6. Show Up
   Knowing about your gifts is a blessing for you, showing up and putting them to good use is a blessing for humanity. The love, joy, peace, and service in our being will multiply when we give it to others unconditionally.Showing up isn't about hustling or marketing yourself in any way that feels uncomfortable or misaligned. It's about being available to intuitively serve in any way the Divine calls on you through those in your grassroots and/or online communities. The more you love and heal yourself, the more you surrender to the wise intuition within you, and the more you trust in the path of your Soul, the more joyfully available you will be to all those who need you.

   Each time you show up, expect an energy exchange that speaks of abundance in all areas of your life. Believe that you will always be taken care of, financially and otherwise, for that's exactly what the cosmos wishes for you, too.

7. Dance with Life
   If you're working relentlessly, expecting your diligence to provide you with an abundance of rewards, you're more likely to become burnt out than richly satisfied. While you absolutely need to show up, you also need to rest up. Have a dance break, take a trip to the markets, catch up with friends, tend to your garden, and otherwise surrender deeply enough to receive fully from the universe.If you're giving all the time, there's no space to receive. Time away from your computer or workspace will also amplify your creativity and provides the ultimate opening for insight—new and aligned inspiration—to find you.
8. Revel in Your Uniqueness
   There is no one else on earth with the same harmonious fusion of talents, gifts, wisdom, karma, and medicine. There is literally no one in the history of humankind who's got what you've got. Revel in your own kind of magic. Explore and express it, love and care for it. Learn to be inspired by others without following them on their path.This journey you're here to traverse is exclusively yours. Your uniqueness is what draws people to you. Bring your quirks to life in every way that your heart and Soul desire.
9. Expect Challenges
   The challenges you hold within yourself that have not been healed and released will show up in your life externally until you heal them. If you are dealing with self-judgment, you will feel the judgments of others until you make peace with yourself. If you feel unworthy, you will attract others who magnify this unworthy state of being until you feel completely worthy of all the abundance in the world.Welcome the challenges in your life as a gift for you to grow, heal trauma and karma, find yourself, and come home to the greatest version of you.
10. Learn to Pivot
    There are no mistakes or failure in discovering your purpose, only pivots. We all need to pivot when we come across an unexpected roadblock, be it the fallen branch of "failure," heavy clouds of confusion, or the prickly discomfort of someone else’s judgment or opinion.Roadblocks are not a sign you did something "wrong;" they are simply the universe's way of escorting you onto another path that is more aligned with your Soul. Learn to pivot in faith and grace onto a new way. Bless the blocks, embrace the ruins, hold your chin up, look to the stars, and begin again.
11. Trust the Process
    Without trust you may find it difficult to move forward. When self-doubt sneaks into your mind, come back to your heart. Your heart knows and loves all. Through your heartspace you have access to the eternal wisdom of your Soul and Highest Self.Trust that your Highest Self will always have your best interests at heart and that you can count on this expansive part of you to guide you toward the most exciting and blissful path. With deeper trust, your intuition will be clearer to recognize.

You hold the keys to your future and the gold of your gifts. Go within and trust what you intuitively feel to be the next step for you.

If you'd like to explore your intuition, instinct, and insight more deeply, you will find an abundance of spiritual rituals, scientific exploration, journal prompts, and much more in my book, The Call of Intuition: Learn to Recognize and Honor Your Intuition, Instinct and Insight.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

Do you believe in numerology? Yesterday, a man told me that if I add up my birth date numbers, I'll get number 11, which means that I have special psychic powers and can feel people's energies and heal them. It has always been hard for me to be around people because it is so exhausting, but I've never felt like I can heal people or tell what is wrong with them. I work in customer service in the medical field and my job is too draining and emotional for me. I am going to school to become an accountant so I can hide in the small room away from everyone and drown myself in numbers. I was born on December 21, 1985. Thank you for your amazing website and all the wonderful work you do.

Tania

Susyn:

I do believe in numerology; in fact, I believe we are influenced by all sorts of forces that most of us are not aware of. Just as you are influenced astrologically by the time and place you were born, your birth date contains information regarding your unique gifts, personality traits and life path.

As an 11, you would indeed possess special psychic powers and be able to pick up on the energy of the people around you. Eleven is a very spiritual number that suggests the ability to do two or more things at once, just as being born on the cusp of two signs (as you were) would give you a dual nature and add versatility to all you do.

Being an 11 may also explain your sensitivity to the feelings of others. This could be causing you to feel drained by the people you come into contact with and be fueling your desire to withdraw from the world by switching to a career that would keep you from working directly with the public.

However, I don't believe that changing careers will resolve the emotional exhaustion you are experiencing. Though your current job seems frustrating, switching to accounting won't resolve the deeper issues you're struggling with, for you will still have to come into contact with other people on a regular basis.

As you were born on the cusp between Sagittarius and Capricorn, astrologically speaking you would do well as an accountant and thrive in any career that involves sorting or organizing. Though you would definitely be better suited to a career in accounting than the medical field, you need to work on how you interact with the world in general.

For one thing, you will have to acknowledge and begin to put your psychic gifts to good use. Part of this will involve learning how to protect yourself from going into energetic overload when you are around other people. At some point, your innate healing and psychic gifts will also push for expression.

One of the best things you can do to rectify your imbalance is adopt a regular meditation practice, for regular quiet time will naturally bring your divine gifts to the surface. During this time, it would be helpful to visualize a bubble or shield of light around yourself for added protection. Doing this each morning will make it easier to fend off the intense energies you are exposed to each day.

Now that you are aware of the reason for the uneasiness you feel around people, you can protect yourself by setting up stronger psychic boundaries. Many of us who are sensitive to energy have had to build up an invisible barrier to keep from being drained. Once you establish this barrier, you should feel more energized and comfortable around people.

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Oceania:

Numerology, astrology, and tarot are systems that help us define what is happening within us by projecting it onto outside symbols upon which we can study and reflect. Numbers are universal energies represented by written symbols. For example, as a circle, zero can represent potential, wholeness, or the entire Universe.

Standing alone, the number one is symbolic of the individual. It could also represent the creative manifestation of zeroís potential. The number two is the perfect symbol for relationship or duality. Three can represent a couple plus that something extra known as synergy in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Three can also represent the family: mother, father and child. I delight in discovering symbolism in numerals. For example, my address is 2112. I like the symmetry of this number and choose to see it as two individuals protected on either side by the power of the couple.

In traditional numerology, one keeps adding digits together until a single digit is reached. Your birthday adds up to an 11, which can be further reduced to two, since 1 + 1 = 2. The number two in the tarot is the receptive Priestess who has extraordinary intuitive gifts. If you are interested in developing your intuition and healing abilities, you might draw upon the power of the Priestess for help.

Numerology can be applied to words by assigning a number to each letter of the alphabet. A = 1, B = 2, etc. After reaching 9, you begin with 1 again. Letís look at your name: TANIA = 2 + 1 + 5 + 9 + 1 = 18, which reduces to 1 + 8 = 9. In the tarot, the number 9 is the Hermit, who is unafraid of being alone and not easily pulled off course by outside influences. The Hermit exercises her free will to choose a path of integrity and stay on course.

For you, the message here is to choose a career that suits your unique personality and desires. If you end up working as an accountant, you might create your own numerical or bookkeeping system. Instead of drowning yourself in numbers, you could learn to float and swim!

Humans thrive on meaning; we are meaning-makers. As Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar says: Happiness lies at the intersection between pleasure and meaning. Whether at work or at home, the goal is to engage in activities that are both personally significant and enjoyable.

Iím not convinced that adding up numbers in a birth date means much in reality, but it is fun to search for ways that our numerology could symbolize something positive. Symbols are powerful because they condense and hold the energy of something greater, so I think we should use them to our advantage whenever possible!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.